Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust. But we shouldn't count out stats altogether ... instead, we should learn to look behind them. In this delightful, hilarious talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi shares handy tips to help question, interpret and truly understand what the numbers are saying.

Data Visualization Strategies in the Age of “Fake News” KRISTIN FONTICHIARO University of Michigan School of Information MELISSA P. JOHNSTON University of West Georgia TASHA BERGSON-MICHELSON Castilleja School K Today’s slides: http://bit.ly/aasl-data

As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change to improve science. The common theme? The problem is not our maths, but ourselves.